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... against Iraqi prisoner abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. A Turkish Foreign Ministry official told Reuters that it "appears seven people have been taken hostage. We don't have any concrete information on their identities." The official said the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad and Turkish intelligence services were trying ...
The video shows the hostage, who identifies himself as 26-year-old Pennsylvania businessman Nick Berg, seated in front of five masked individuals, one of whom reads a statement in Arabic. Berg is then pushed to the floor while one of his captors cuts off his head with a large ...
Three Japanese taken hostage in Iraq were released Thursday, but violence continued there with the murder of an Iranian diplomat, renewed fighting in Fallujah and a stalemate in Najaf.
This raises fears that they may join the more than two dozen foreigners from 11 countries that were taken hostage in separate incidents by insurgents over the last week. On Saturday a video was released with one American hostage, Thomas Hamill, a truck driver for Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary ...
The new hostages add to the three Japanese aid workers, two Palestinian residents of Israel and one Canadian worker taken hostage during an earlier wave of kidnappings this week. Some of those detained have been released. Seven South Korean Christian missionaries were briefly held and later released Thursday. The New ...
... and three U.S. defense contractors -- all reportedly held in camps well ensconced within Colombia's dense jungles. The rebels have sought to exchange the hostages for jailed guerrillas, a demand the Catholic Church and family members of the hostages have pressed Uribe to accept. On Monday night, Uribe said ...
The hostages, including 17 Americans, are employees of Transocean, the world's largest offshore oil drilling contractor. "Everybody is expected to be moving home from this evening depending on logistics," Joseph Akinlaja, deputy president of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), told reporters. Some hostages may already have been released, according ...
Andrei Seltsovsky, chairman of the health committee of the city of Moscow, told a news conference that 115 hostages perished from "The effects of the gas exposure." Officials would not say what the gas was, but compared it to anaesthetic. Security analysts surmised that it was probably a fast-acting ...
... hostages or blow up the building if Russia did not agree to pull its troops out of the breakaway republic of Chechnya, press reports said. Hostage Maria Shkolnikova told Reuters via cell phone that explosives had been laid in passageways, on seats and were attached to hostages themselves. The Qatar ...
DIMITRI SIMES: Yes but the initiative is in the hands of hostage takers and my concern is that some of the hostages may try to escape. That may become a trigger for the real disaster. As you know, President Bush today became first foreign leader who called President Putin and ...
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